Welcome to the 263rd edition of Phish.Net's Mystery Jam Monday, the final and most difficult of February. The winner will receive an MP3 download code courtesy of our friends at LivePhish.com / Nugs.Net. To win, be the first person to identify the songs and dates of the three mystery clips – these clips are only vaguely connected by a theme, so I don't expect it to help much and won't require it to be part of the correct answer. Each person gets one guess – if no one guesses correctly, I will post a hint on Tuesday, after which each person gets one more guess before I reveal the correct answer on Wednesday around 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. Good luck!
Hint: While all three clips come from shows in three different decades, with each show featuring a Mike's Groove, the reason I put them together is because they're all atypical endings of their respective songs.
Update: Our apologies for the site maintenance issues – thanks to our awesome tech team, we're back in business! In case anyone missed my comment below, the MJM will end tomorrow (Thursday) morning before 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. Did I mention that the clips come from songs before*, after*, and in the Mike's Grooves from the shows at which they were played?
*not necessarily the song immediately before or after...
Answer: It took an MJM with the most tenuous (ableit revealed-at-hint) theme to date, and folks were closing in on the answer in the waning (extended) moments, but it finally happened: The Blog has won its 18th MJM! The Blog hadn't won in more than six months, and I myself hadn't won as host in more than ten months (the last two wins were during the no holds barred Emeritus Challenge). Despite a few hints down the stretch, folks were unable to identify the 4/14/89 The Sloth, the 10/22/16 First Tube, and the 7/31/97 Mike's Song, all of which had generally unusual and atypical-for-the-song endings. For MJM264 I expect a feeding frenzy, as the difficulty will drop precipitously and we'll be playing for two codes.
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9/11/99 Harry Hood
7/12/99 What's The Use
::sourcey::
also, helluva job with the MJM. my closest guess for the theme is: all played by Phish
looking forward to seeing what the answer is!!
3/19/93 It's Ice
9/30/00 Emotional Rescue
10/28/14 Hood
spoiler: the .net's unbreakable
9/4/16 First Tube
9/30/00 Emotional Rescue
9/30/00 Emotional Rescue
I tried both of these out and I'm pretty sure neither of them is clip 2 or 3, though there are remarkable similarities... would be miffed if I was wrong
I, harborseal, on the other hand, got nuthin'.
@uctweezer said:
Well done Blog!!
@uctweezer said: "@HarborSeal said: "Pete, nobody got the 7/31/97 Mike's! Kind words, but we (collective we) only got one of the three and came close on one other. The Shoreline Mike's--despite being bold on the jam chart--eluded us.
I, harborseal, on the other hand, got nuthin'.
@uctweezer said: "@courvoisier said: "4/14/89 The Sloth
9/4/16 First Tube
9/30/00 Emotional Rescue"
@dbertsch said: "Damn. I give up. Got #1 and #3 but couldn't find #2."
@courvoisier was so close on the second clip... When I saw those posts I got worried it'd be a wire job, where I'd be writing up my victory speech but refresh once more before posting, only to see the correct answer sitting at the bottom of the comments. Insane that even with this MJM, which was just plain stupid difficult, the guessing crew got two of three and got the song and year correct on the remaining clip, but guessing the last First Tube played before 10/22/16! Insane. Bravo to you all – you may not have taken me out this week, but I'm as impressed as ever. Next week will be a gift (and a sprint) compared to this week's marathon.""
@dbertsch said he got it in the comment I quoted – he never said "7/31/97 Mike's" but I guess I believed him!"